Academic and Educational Development: Research, Evaluation and Changing Practice in Higher Education

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction - Introduction 1
• 1 - Educational Development: Research, Evaluation and Changing Practice in Higher Education 3
• References 12
• Part One - Supporting Change within Subjects and Departments 15
• 2 - Developing Work Based Educators: Professional and Organizational Issues 17
• 3 - Evaluation as a Tool for Curriculum Development: a Case Study of Multimedia Development in the Teaching of Creative Writing 29
• 4 - Researching Teaching Effectiveness as an Experiential Learning Cycle: Insights into Practice 41
• 5 - Improving Teaching and Learning in Chemistry: The National Improve Project 52
• 6 - Planning and Understanding Change: Toolkits for Course Design and Evaluation 62
• References 75
• 7 - Enhancing Transferable Skills Elements within a Subject Discipline: an Example of How Project Initiatives Can Be Implemented across a Diverse Subject Discipline in the Higher Education Sector 76
• References 86
• 8 - Translating Research into Disseminated Good Practice: The Case of Student Residence Abroad 87
• 9 - Incorporating Change through Reflection: Community Based Learning 99
• 10 - Developing an Evaluation Design: a Multi-Dimensional Case Study 112
• Part Two - Supporting Change within Institutions and the Wider Environment 127
• 11 - Developing Research Based Learning Using Ict in Higher Education Curricula: The Role of Research and Evaluation 129
• References 139
• 12 - Implementing a Virtual Learning Environment: a Holistic Framework for Institutionalizing Online Learning 140
• References 150
• 13 - Spreading the Word about Pedagogic Research: The Virtual Reading Group 152
• 14 - Professional Development for Organizational Change 164
• 15 - Integrating Learning Technologies to Support the Acquisition of Foreign Languages for Specific Disciplines 177
• References 189
• 16 - Structures for Facilitating Play and Creativity in Learning: a Psychoanalytical Perspective 190
• 17 - Integrating Skills Development with Academic Content in the Changing Curriculum 200
• Conclusions - Conclusions 215
• 18 - Towards a Culture of Evaluation 217
• Index 235

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